The European Union and Council of Europe’s join action “Raising awareness of the Istanbul Convention and other gender equality standards in Azerbaijan” continues its series of webinars on specific articles of the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence – known as the Istanbul Convention. under. The next webinar will be focusing on raising awareness on violence against women (Article 13).
The online webinar will take place on 8 June 2021 at 11am (Baku time). For registration to this event, please follow this link.
Based on a Council of Europe collection of papers explaining specific articles of the Istanbul Convention, this webinar aims to help understand what measures countries should take under specific articles once they join it.
Article 13 of the Istanbul Convention covers how states can prevent violence against women by joining forces with other actors, especially women’s organisations to increase understanding and awareness on the different forms and consequences of violence against women.
Two other sessions will be organised throughout the year on the following articles:
- ‘Domestic and Sexual Violence Perpetrator Programmes: Article 16 of the Istanbul Convention’
- ‘Emergency Barring Orders in Situations of Domestic Violence: Article 52 of the Istanbul Convention’
These activities are prepared within the framework of the project “Raising awareness of the Istanbul Convention and other gender equality standards in Azerbaijan”, as part of the Partnership for Good Governance II (PGGII) Programme and is financed by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the latter.
For further information on the project, please see the project’s website.
For further information on PGGII, please see PGGII’s website.